A MAN convicted of money laundering, possession of criminal property and an offence under the medicines act has been issued a £110,000 confiscation order.
Michael O’Neill, 55, from Bournemouth, was convicted of the offences in November 2011.
His trial followed an investigation by Dorset Police which found he was selling perfumes stolen from the Procter and Gamble factory in Poole, as well as Viagra tablets.
The man was found in possession of stolen perfumes worth more than £37,000 when he was arrested.
On Wednesday he was issued with a confiscation order by Dorchester Crown Court – instructing him to pay £110,000 within six months or serve a two year term of imprisonment in default.
The default sentence does not discharge the order and the £110,000 is still in fact required to be paid.
DS Andrew Kennard, of the Dorset Police Economic Crime Unit, said: “Whenever it is identified that someone has benefited from their criminal conduct, we will try to recover that benefit.
“It is right that the public should see convicted criminals deprived of their ill-gotten gains, especially in these very difficult financial times.”
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